“Our job is to really provide the evidence that shows if these devices or apps actually work,” he said. “There’s a lot of things that we just assume they’re going to work — they sound really good, they make complete sense. But medicine is full of ideas that everyone said ‘Oh this will work’ and then it didn’t — and sometimes they even made things worse. Our primary goal is to run the trials that show if these [mobile apps and devices] work, how they work, and how they should best be implemented.”